William Kennedy has an excellent post on this https://www.ardanlabs.com/blog/2017/06/design-philosophy-on-data-and-semantics.html https://www.ardanlabs.com/blog

William Kennedy has an excellent post on this https://www.ardanlabs.com/blog/2017/06/design-philosophy-on-data-and-semantics.html https://www.ardanlabs.com/blog/2017/06/design-philosophy-on-... As someone who has written (and read) a decent amount of Go the value vs pointer semantics of the function informs me of how the creator intends for the type to be used. Seeing pointer receivers informs me that there is an expectation of modifying the state while value pointers (which are thankfully more common) return a copy of the data.